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Changing Our Climate of Denial — with Anthony Leiserowitz

Your Undivided Attention

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The Importance of Understanding Human Behavior

CNN's John Sutter talks about the role of human behavior in climate change. He says humans are very bad at visualizing exponential growth, which is what we need to address. The brain has two processing systems: an analytic system and a experiential one that can be triggered by external events such as earthquakes or tsunamis," he says. "We've tended to privilege one over the other."

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